Hello,
I am using Chromecast with my new Nexus 7. I have issues with YouTube, since it plays perfectly the first video I start but always timeouts on the next one I try to play. I have to disconnect and reconnect to be able to make YouTube video streaming work again.
Any ideas of what might be the problem?
Thanks in advance!
I haven't noticed this on my Nexus 7 (2013). I will check again tonight and will report.
Mine is very seemless. I tried creating queue And they played all without any glitch. Check your internet connections?
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Screw Google Chromecast
Yeah, the chromecast sucks. Don't buy one. I was excited, but it just goes to a spinning circle all the damn time. A 6 minute 480p video took 25 minutes to play. That's 19 full minutes of the buffering circle.
Before you jump on my ****, I do IT for a living, it's got 2 bars, and all 10 other devices have NO issue playing youtube (on the same wifiN router), so don't go there.
Yes, that's more or less what happens to me. Resetting the device makes it work again, I assume it might be because Chromecast gets very worm, I can't find any other explanation than cheap hardware.
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Yeah, the chromecast sucks. Don't buy one. I was excited, but it just goes to a spinning circle all the damn time. A 6 minute 480p video took 25 minutes to play. That's 19 full minutes of the buffering circle.
Before you jump on my ****, I do IT for a living, it's got 2 bars, and all 10 other devices have NO issue playing youtube (on the same wifiN router), so don't go there.
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Yeah I was disappointed that this thing didn't have an ethernet port. For wireless, I noticed it doesn't even run on 5Ghz. At least not properly, I don't think. I need the router in the same room for it to run ~smoothly
Otherwise, when my brother leaves the tv on while I'm up in my room. I play scary youtube videos with loud noises to wake him up.
crhylove said:
Yeah, the chromecast sucks. Don't buy one. I was excited, but it just goes to a spinning circle all the damn time. A 6 minute 480p video took 25 minutes to play. That's 19 full minutes of the buffering circle.
Before you jump on my ****, I do IT for a living, it's got 2 bars, and all 10 other devices have NO issue playing youtube (on the same wifiN router), so don't go there.
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As an IT guy you should understand that every situation is unique. The good news is that there's almost always a solution. The times when problems can't be solved are rare. I would encourage you to look at other avenues to solve this so you can help others when they need it. Your blanket statement that it's a bad product and doesn't work simply isn't the norm. Most experience the opposite of you.
I did have problems with my Actiontec router but found a solution. My daughter, who also has an Actiontec router in her condo just plugged it in and it worked. She's a doctor and, believe me, her technical skills are not that great. It just worked for her. Another daughter of mine, a school teacher, had the plug and play experience also. Just works.
Like you, I work in IT. I manage 80 IT folks. The one thing I stress on my staff is a little message that a Calculus professor used to tell us when I was an undergrad at UCLA: "There are so many ways to solve the problem you can't help but get the right answer." So, I challenge you to keep trying and don't give up. I'm sure there's a solution for you. Once you find that solution your skills will have been enhanced and you'll be better able to help others that come here with similar problems.
Good luck
giuliastro said:
Hello,
I am using Chromecast with my new Nexus 7. I have issues with YouTube, since it plays perfectly the first video I start but always timeouts on the next one I try to play. I have to disconnect and reconnect to be able to make YouTube video streaming work again.
Any ideas of what might be the problem?
Thanks in advance!
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This appears to be a glitch not resulting from any sort of connection. The issue isn't signal but some sort of failure in the code. What happens is it plays a video, goes to queue up the next one, shows the banner and dies. A fix is to toggle the app to play on the device and then back to the TV but it clears your queue which is annoying. Once its toggled it immediately plays for me.
Hoping they fix it soon. But it isn't a deal breaker by any means.
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Yes, by switching device / tv then video plays. I really hope it's some coding bug and not heating related, since code fan be fixed.
TabGuy said:
As an IT guy you should understand that every situation is unique. The good news is that there's almost always a solution. The times when problems can't be solved are rare. I would encourage you to look at other avenues to solve this so you can help others when they need it. Your blanket statement that it's a bad product and doesn't work simply isn't the norm. Most experience the opposite of you.
I did have problems with my Actiontec router but found a solution. My daughter, who also has an Actiontec router in her condo just plugged it in and it worked. She's a doctor and, believe me, her technical skills are not that great. It just worked for her. Another daughter of mine, a school teacher, had the plug and play experience also. Just works.
Like you, I work in IT. I manage 80 IT folks. The one thing I stress on my staff is a little message that a Calculus professor used to tell us when I was an undergrad at UCLA: "There are so many ways to solve the problem you can't help but get the right answer." So, I challenge you to keep trying and don't give up. I'm sure there's a solution for you. Once you find that solution your skills will have been enhanced and you'll be better able to help others that come here with similar problems.
Good luck
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Every IT situation is unique, sure. But this device can't keep from constantly buffering even at 480p. It's ridiculous. And no, it's not the router. I have 5 android phones, 3 laptops, and 2 android tablets that all play youtube without EVER stopping in the middle of the video, and most of them at 1080p. 2 of those phones are really old ones (model escapes me at the moment, I don't use them much these days). It's the device. It's not either of my routers, it's not my 30mb down connection, and it's certainly not user error or network congestion. Probably the NSA backdoor google installed in it is slowing it down.
F Google, and F this broken crap device.
Oh, and additionally it can't play side loaded songs from my phone in Google Play music. It can't even stream an mp3 WITH NO VIDEO. This is not just bad hardware, this is outright crap design.
"Connecting..." in YouTube
I'm seeing something similar too... I can playback the first video fine, the tablet then displays "Connecting..." in the YouTube app - but I can't control the video or add new videos to the queue. I have to kill the app to play another video. BTW, same thing happens on my Nexus 10... but I don't see the problem if I'm using a PC+chrome. I've got another Chromecast that should be coming in a few days... so will compare to see if it is a hardware issue or something else.
I was watching YouTube on my Chromecast yesterday and had something very similar happen. The first video I watched had no problems but every video after that had buffering problems. I even tried re-casting it, leaving the app, and restarting it but the problem didn't go away. I thought it was a heat issue so I disconnected it and haven't tried it since but am going to try again tonight. They were long videos (about an hour or so each) but I doubt that has anything to do with the buffering issue.
I know it wasn't my internet because when I played YouTube on my laptop and my PS3, it could stream at the highest quality no problem. It seems to be only happening on the Chromecast.
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Oh, and additionally it can't play side loaded songs from my phone in Google Play music. It can't even stream an mp3 WITH NO VIDEO. This is not just bad hardware, this is outright crap design.
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Haven't really played around with it but I can agree with you on the fact that it WILL NOT play side loaded music which is just crap. What's the point of having it connect to your device to stream music if it CANNOT play it?? Stupid if you ask me, I hope that GOOGLE is planning on fixing their device. Why put a plug in from people rooting the device and being able to make the device work the way they want it to? Sorry your device doesnt work either..
-AkWingnut
I am still having this issue. Basically with YouTube not being able to stream 2 videos in a row the device is crap. Still waiting to be able to stream local pictures and videos, Google please hurry.
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Hey everyone. I've had my chromecast for about a week now and I have some nagging issues which hopefully are just bugs which google will fix. Nonetheless, I thought I would see if anyone else faced the same issues. Ok first, most of the time when I cast something syncing works fine. I cast lets say YouTube and every other device finds the chromecast and I am able to interact with it as expected. Occasionally, I will start a video and then move to a different device and that new device does not automatically connect to the chromecast and display the queue as I would expect. Instead, I have to hit the connect button in the app and manually have it connect. Sometimes when I do this it picks up the queue fine and other-times it preempts the video queue and stops playback. I never know going into it how it's going to react and it has annoyingly killed a queue several videos long.
Much more annoying is Play music. On the device which initiates the cast I can interact as expected. However, on any other device I pick up the queue never syncs at all. Further, if I try and connect with another device it boots off the first device and goes back to the screen with the headphones. Where youtube does this occasionally, play music does it every-time without fail. What's even more annoying is that the remotecast app which was released several days ago works while casting play music. It has never once killed a queue. It connects perfectly and allows me to play and pause as expected across devices so I suspect that it might be an issue with google's code. Anybody else have these problems?
I have the same issue with play music. Owning a Nexus Q this is frustrating. The Q synced seamlessly between devices.
Google is pushing updates to both chromecast and the play music app right now so it could be fixed.
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Hey everyone. I've had my chromecast for about a week now and I have some nagging issues which hopefully are just bugs which google will fix. Nonetheless, I thought I would see if anyone else faced the same issues. Ok first, most of the time when I cast something syncing works fine. I cast lets say YouTube and every other device finds the chromecast and I am able to interact with it as expected. Occasionally, I will start a video and then move to a different device and that new device does not automatically connect to the chromecast and display the queue as I would expect. Instead, I have to hit the connect button in the app and manually have it connect. Sometimes when I do this it picks up the queue fine and other-times it preempts the video queue and stops playback. I never know going into it how it's going to react and it has annoyingly killed a queue several videos long.
Much more annoying is Play music. On the device which initiates the cast I can interact as expected. However, on any other device I pick up the queue never syncs at all. Further, if I try and connect with another device it boots off the first device and goes back to the screen with the headphones. Where youtube does this occasionally, play music does it every-time without fail. What's even more annoying is that the remotecast app which was released several days ago works while casting play music. It has never once killed a queue. It connects perfectly and allows me to play and pause as expected across devices so I suspect that it might be an issue with google's code. Anybody else have these problems?
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Hey Haberda ! I'm the RemoteCast developer and I just wanted to let you know that the way RemoteCast has been developed shouldn't interfere with your playback in any negative way. The app is following the standards Google made available for developers, which was made for multiple connections to the device. I think the issue is on the Chromecast itself. It's still a young platform, give it a few months to catch up with expectations.
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Hey Haberda ! I'm the RemoteCast developer and I just wanted to let you know that the way RemoteCast has been developed shouldn't interfere with your playback in any negative way. The app is following the standards Google made available for developers, which was made for multiple connections to the device. I think the issue is on the Chromecast itself. It's still a young platform, give it a few months to catch up with expectations.
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Remotecast works great! It's the only reliable way for me to connect across devices without fear of killing my current stream. Thanks for the good work!
So, casting from Netflix seems to work fine, but anything from YouTube or Play Music results in audio so choppy it sounds like a toddler trying to learn to be a DJ. Video from YouTube plays fine, with no hesitation. Any ideas?
Local files seem to be okay as well. Netflix audio stutters a little at first (maybe 1min),but eventually smooths out. It still does it long enough to be annoying. Kinda regretting my chromecast...
Really, no one?
no issues like that here. well once a youtube video did after i resumed from pausing it reloading the vid solved that issue.
Local files? you're still able to play them?
Yeah, dropping a file into Chrome and casting the tab seems to work. When casting a tab, I'm assuming that a mild delay is typical, right?
To some degree as that is still in beta. Network conditions also play a bigger part when casting via chrome
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Well, someone (on another site, obviously) suggested it might be a bad unit, so I returned it. Grabbed another today...and same thing. Is there a particular wireless security type that it doesn't like? I'm on a 2.4Ghz router. Is there a particular channel that's better?
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Well, someone (on another site, obviously) suggested it might be a bad unit, so I returned it. Grabbed another today...and same thing. Is there a particular wireless security type that it doesn't like? I'm on a 2.4Ghz router. Is there a particular channel that's better?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en
Use WPA-personal/WPA-PSK is sufficient.
I'm using WPA-personal. And all WiFi Analyzer seems to be telling me is that I have great reception. The channel I'm on fluctuates between 9 and 10 stars, but a couple seem to hold on 10, so I guess I could switch, but it doesn't seem to be a big difference.
2 Issues (are others seeing these problems?):
1) Twice now I've tried to play two rather popular shows the day after initial showing (Castle and Walking Dead) during "prime time" (around 8pm est) and they wouldn't load the most recent episode. It would act like it's casting, the episode would flash up on the tv, and then it would go back to the play movies and tv casting screen on both the tv and my phone. Meanwhile, older episodes and purchased movies streamed fine. I"m wondering if it's some kind of server overload or something.
One more thing to note, the episodes played fine directly on my phone
2) When playing video on Play Movies and TV I seem to get these little jumps in the stream. Not buffering, maybe better described as frame rate lags or a dropped frame or something. Nothing crazy noticeable but annoying none the less. I don't see this on Netflix. Anyone else see anything like this? Is it my connection or what? Any thoughts on the matter?
Regardless of my issues, here's hoping this thing takes off!
Unfortunately the jumpy video is a symptom of the poor performance of Google's tab-casting code. It requires your computer to do the transcoding of the stream in real time with very little buffering, and Google's "beta" code just isn't up to the task on any but the very fastest computers. Plex does a far better job transcoding the same streams on the same computer.
I was referring to casting from my phone as the device was intended, not a tab cast. Unfortunately I have found that my laptop cannot handle casting as it's too old . But thank you for the reply
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Hello everyone!
I just recently got myself a Chromecast to use specifically with Netflix and Hulu Plus (casting from an iOS device).
Thanks to this forum I knew how to proceed for everything beforehand, using Smart DNS in my router, blacklisting google's DNS servers, etc. I have a TP-Link router.
Netflix is working perfectly, bumps to the 720p stream in about 6 seconds and another 5-6 seconds later it streams at 1080p without any noticeable drops so far.
Hulu Plus however is being problematic. It might smart in HD (sometimes) but either a few minutes later or after the commercials it drops to SD quality and rarely ramps up again. Starting the stream again helps, but only for a short while.
As I currently don't have another H+ device to test, i was wondering if the hulu plus implementation with Chromecast is indeed flawed or if this is happening just to myself (I understand that being overseas might not help - although I'm not sure which CDN I'm getting the content from), but it's really annoying seeing all the godawful pixels on my screen constantly - the Ads... pfft, well, those are always in 720p, go figure!
Anyway, hopefully you'll be able to share your experiences with me!
Cheers, thanks.
An issue has risen in the last 3 weeks that has become quite annoying. I am connecting a Galaxy S6 (SM-G920T1) on a T-Mobile Network to an AVH-4100NEX in a 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis. I travel frequently with trips ranging from 2 to 4 hours. It would seem to happen randomly, but the audio (noticed on Audiobooks.com, Spotify, and BeyondPod) would slow down and skip [much like playing a video game that has dropped to very low FPS] and pressing pause will not fix the issue, as the button will say it's been paused but continue to play the messed up audio. The solution I've found was to unplug my device and plug it back in and rewinding the track to the position it began skipping when listening to audio books. It happens randomly between 15 - 30 minutes. On my last trip, I was exiting an interstate highway and, while the audio was skipping the same way on BeyondPod, my Google Maps gave me verbal directions that were clear and undisturbed. It's not just far away trips anymore, just this morning it happened while listening to an audio book and commuting to the office (15 minute drive). This has only been in the last 3 weeks that this issue was occurring.
If anyone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated. Not only is this embarrassing when someone is riding with me, but it is dangerous for me to have to constantly reconnect during rush hour traffic.
By the by, this occurs both on streaming media and media played directly from my device, so network connectivity is not the issue. Additionally, I've tried several USB cables to ensure that it was not a faulty cord (from Pioneer, Samsung, and 3rd Party); each having the same issue.
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An issue has risen in the last 3 weeks that has become quite annoying. I am connecting a Galaxy S6 (SM-G920T1) on a T-Mobile Network to an AVH-4100NEX in a 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis. I travel frequently with trips ranging from 2 to 4 hours. It would seem to happen randomly, but the audio (noticed on Audiobooks.com, Spotify, and BeyondPod) would slow down and skip [much like playing a video game that has dropped to very low FPS] and pressing pause will not fix the issue, as the button will say it's been paused but continue to play the messed up audio. The solution I've found was to unplug my device and plug it back in and rewinding the track to the position it began skipping when listening to audio books. It happens randomly between 15 - 30 minutes. On my last trip, I was exiting an interstate highway and, while the audio was skipping the same way on BeyondPod, my Google Maps gave me verbal directions that were clear and undisturbed. It's not just far away trips anymore, just this morning it happened while listening to an audio book and commuting to the office (15 minute drive). This has only been in the last 3 weeks that this issue was occurring.
If anyone has a solution, it would be greatly appreciated. Not only is this embarrassing when someone is riding with me, but it is dangerous for me to have to constantly reconnect during rush hour traffic.
By the by, this occurs both on streaming media and media played directly from my device, so network connectivity is not the issue. Additionally, I've tried several USB cables to ensure that it was not a faulty cord (from Pioneer, Samsung, and 3rd Party); each having the same issue.
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I have the exact same issue with my NEX4100 and my Nexus 6P. Latest firmware is installed on the NEX4100.
I have it happening during music playback in Google Play Music, and lately in the Audible app which I have been using a LOT. It happened twice during my 30 minute commute home on both of the last 2 trips home.
During a short trip at lunchtime today I listened to some music from a flash drive plugged into USB1 without issue.
I might just try Bluetooth audio for the Audible app, but I get random dropouts in the audio sometimes.
I found this thread but I was disappointed that no one had responded! I was hoping to find a solution.
Do you happen to use Android Wear also?
spiff72 said:
I have the exact same issue with my NEX4100 and my Nexus 6P. Latest firmware is installed on the NEX4100.
I have it happening during music playback in Google Play Music, and lately in the Audible app which I have been using a LOT. It happened twice during my 30 minute commute home on both of the last 2 trips home.
During a short trip at lunchtime today I listened to some music from a flash drive plugged into USB1 without issue.
I might just try Bluetooth audio for the Audible app, but I get random dropouts in the audio sometimes.
I found this thread but I was disappointed that no one had responded! I was hoping to find a solution.
Do you happen to use Android Wear also?
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I never seem to be in luck with getting responses, but the issue eventually just stopped one day. Perhaps AA updated, but I didn't update any firmware neither on my device or radio. I am now using the Galaxy S7 Edge (SM-G935T) and have had no issues at all, albeit a few moments skip like a scratched CD via Spotify (playing on Hi-Def); but that could be entirely my data package. As for wearables, I use the Samsung Gear S2 Classic. I turned off the data package on it because the call forwarding was bugged. It works via bluetooth, but not worth $15 a month for a data package. The S Health is cool, too. Outside of the aesthetics of showing off that I'm a "techie", there is really no point to owning the watch (you can probably get a FitBit to do the same for much cheaper).
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I never seem to be in luck with getting responses, but the issue eventually just stopped one day. Perhaps AA updated, but I didn't update any firmware neither on my device or radio. I am now using the Galaxy S7 Edge (SM-G935T) and have had no issues at all, albeit a few moments skip like a scratched CD via Spotify (playing on Hi-Def); but that could be entirely my data package. As for wearables, I use the Samsung Gear S2 Classic. I turned off the data package on it because the call forwarding was bugged. It works via bluetooth, but not worth $15 a month for a data package. The S Health is cool, too. Outside of the aesthetics of showing off that I'm a "techie", there is really no point to owning the watch (you can probably get a FitBit to do the same for much cheaper).
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Hmmm. This sort of thing makes me wish I hadn't upgraded my head unit to to December 2015 firmware update (1.053 I think).
It happened again this morning, and I tried using just bluetooth for my audiobook for the rest of the drive and it worked fine. I disconnected my Android wear watch this morning too (I haven't been wearing it lately anyway), hoping that it may have been a contributing factor to the issues. Apparently it didn't help.
I'm just grasping at straws for a common denominator here. Do you use Tasker at all?
Thanks for the response!
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Hmmm. This sort of thing makes me wish I hadn't upgraded my head unit to to December 2015 firmware update (1.053 I think).
It happened again this morning, and I tried using just bluetooth for my audiobook for the rest of the drive and it worked fine. I disconnected my Android wear watch this morning too (I haven't been wearing it lately anyway), hoping that it may have been a contributing factor to the issues. Apparently it didn't help.
I'm just grasping at straws for a common denominator here. Do you use Tasker at all?
Thanks for the response!
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At the time the audio was messing up, I hadn't purchase a wearable yet, so you could probably eliminate that. Are you playing your Audiobook locally or are you streaming it? I played mine locally via BeyondPod. I think it may have had something to do with the compression of the files, although a few times it occurred listening to Spotify.
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At the time the audio was messing up, I hadn't purchase a wearable yet, so you could probably eliminate that. Are you playing your Audiobook locally or are you streaming it? I played mine locally via BeyondPod. I think it may have had something to do with the compression of the files, although a few times it occurred listening to Spotify.
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The Audible book is downloaded to the device - so not streaming.
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The Audible book is downloaded to the device - so not streaming.
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Is it like one big file or is it broken into "chapters"? I've found that the major issues I've had were from Audiobooks that were one huge file.
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Is it like one big file or is it broken into "chapters"? I've found that the major issues I've had were from Audiobooks that were one huge file.
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It is a long book - 500 plus pages. It is broken into many chapters, but I assume that it is one large file. Downloaded from the Audible store (actually accompanying the e-book via the Kindle app.